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Jun 10 2020
News
Messy Georgia primary raises alarms for November, as Ossoff edges closer to clinching Senate nomination
The Democratic Senate primary in Georgia was too early to call Wednesday, as Jon Ossoff held onto approximately 49 percent of the vote with more ballots coming in -- amid widespread reports of hourslong lines, voting machine malfunctions, provisional ballot shortages and absentee ballots failing to arrive in time.
Ossoff, whose defeat in a 2017 special election was a gut-punch to
Fox News DigitalAug 17 2019
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Israel’s Alliance With Trump Creates New Tensions Among American Jews
A rabbi in St. Louis Park, Minn., was more than six thousand miles from Jerusalem when he heard the Israeli government decided to bar two Muslim members of Congress from making an official visit to the Jewish state. But within minutes, his phone was flooded with calls from congregants, local Jewish agencies and lay leaders who plunged into what had become a familiar routine: Figuring out how
New York Times (News)Jun 18 2017
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Sleeping Sailors on U.S.S. Fitzgerald Awoke to a Calamity at Sea
Hundreds of sailors were asleep in their berths on board the United States Navy destroyer Fitzgerald early on Saturday when a cargo ship struck it broadside off Japan. After a frantic search through twisted wreckage and flooded cabins, the Navy said on Sunday that several sailors did not survive.
New York Times (News)Aug 26 2021
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When climate adaptation fails, who is responsible? Indonesia is asking.
Climate change means communities must adapt in order to sustain their livelihoods. But there are limits to what small fishing villages can do by themselves.
The fishermen of Asilulu knew something was up when the tuna fled their shores for cooler waters. They didn’t grasp that global warming was heating the ocean and displacing the fish on which their livelihoods depended. But they knew
Christian Science MonitorAug 04 2020
Analysis
How Trump should change the way journalists understand “objectivity”
The American media ecosystem has become saturated with misinformation and noise because the press remains committed to a set of norms that are ill-adapted to the digital age. As I argued here and here, the obsession with “objectivity” in particular has led to an obsession with “balance” or “fairness” that makes it easy for bad-faith actors to get away with pushing falsehoods.
One of the
VoxFeb 12 2021
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Chinese greet Year of the Ox with a COVID-conundrum: Risk infecting family, or mark New Year alone
Many Americans and hundreds of millions of people across Asia were celebrating the Lunar New Year on Friday, kicking off the Year of the Ox. In China, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the traditional rush of people flooding back to their hometowns to reunite with relatives for a week of vacation.
As CBS News Asia correspondent Ramy Inocencio reports from Beijing,
CBS News (Online)Jan 12 2020
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'I'm spending all my money to get rid of Trump': Michael Bloomberg
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg told Reuters he is ready to spend much of his vast fortune to oust Republican President Donald Trump from the White House in 2020, rejecting criticism from rivals for the Democratic nomination that the billionaire is trying to buy the U.S. election.
Ranked by Forbes as the eighth-richest American, Bloomberg has
ReutersAug 18 2021
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Human remains found in C-17’s wheel well after Afghanistan departure; Air Force investigating
The Air Force has opened a formal review of what led a C-17 transport plane to take off from Afghanistan’s main international airport with people clinging to its landing gear — a scene that resulted in Afghan civilians falling to their deaths.
Video showing those deaths and capturing other chaos that unfolded Monday at Hamid Karzai International Airport has been watched by audiences
Washington Times